Why still life art was disrespected, and how it's endured

What was at the top of the hierarchy of painting ?

• Artworks featuring people

• Portraits

• Landscape

• Artworks featuring animals

What was at the bottom of the hierarchy of painting ?

• Mythological scenes

• Still Life

• Landscape

• Artworks featuring animals

What is the literal definition of the term ' still life ' ?

• A painting of objects at rest

• Life that has been paused

• movement of everyday objects

• Artworks depict mythological and religious imagery

Which items are the most expected in a traditional still life artwork?

• fruit, flowers, skull

• flowers, skull, living animals

• skull, people, fruit

• living animals, flowers, landscape

In which continent is still life painting famous in?

• Asia

• Europe

• North America

• Africa

The term ' still life ' is a _________.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• conjunction

The origins of still life supposedly comes from a famous competition between 2 Greek painters. What objects did they paint that fooled people into thinking they were real?

• grapes and a curtain

• birds and a pie

• lamp and a cloth

• bowl and grapes

Still life paintings became famous for....

• being able to fool the audience into thinking the objects were actually real

• being very expensive to create

• capturing the fleeting moments of the landscape

• being imaginative in the narrative and hidden meanings conveyed

What was a main reason why artists painted still life imagery?

• religion

• government order

• personal expression

• entertainment

In Northern Europe and Italy, still life art was commonly called 'nature morte'. What does this mean?

• dead stuff

• more nature

• natural objects

• mortified items